Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GERMAN ATOM DEALS are cooking. North American Aviation will join with Ruhr's giant Demag construction firm to form "Interatom"; each partner will put up $750,000 at first, and North American will ship reactors to West Germany, where Demag will assemble and sell them. Westinghouse will license Germany's Siemens, No. 2 electrical manufacturer in Europe, to build and sell reactors similar to one now generating power at Shippingport, Pa. Westinghouse has signed same deal with Belgian, Italian firms...
...Konrad Adenauer, fearful of domestic repercussions, hoped to avoid any immediate consideration of missile bases on German soil, and told Dulles so. French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau proposed an implied bargain: France would grant IRBM bases if the U.S. would back France in Algeria and support French ambitions to join Britain and the U.S. as NATO's third nuclear power. In Rome the semiofficial news agency Italia reported that "the Italian government does not consider granting of missile bases to NATO a necessary consequence of the international responsibilities Italy has already assumed...
...General Francisco Franco led an army of Moors and Legionnaires out of Africa to join in the Spanish Civil War that brought him to power. Ever since, lance-bearing, scarlet-robed Moorish cavalrymen have attended the dictator on state occasions. But the rude surge of Moroccan nationalism, threatening to overrun Spanish holdings in North Africa, put the old soldier's loyalty to his Moors under heavy strain...
...matt. A sales executive (Gary Merrill) stumbled out of a New England blizzard to find shelter in an old-fashioned mansion where four retired men in dinner jackets almost seemed to be waiting for him. They plied him with food and brandy, and he amiably agreed after dinner to join them in the parlor game that enabled them to practice once more their former professions as judge, prosecutor and defense attorney. Merrill would be the defendant. The crime? He could think of none that he had committed. But soon, between Prosecutor Joseph Wiseman's sharp questions...
...little boy of five, who had attended a regular kindergarten, entered Adastra suffering from nightmares, constant stomach upsets and a nasty rash. Now, no longer bored, he reads, is rapidly learning Spanish, and his symptoms are gone. A girl of four kept vanishing from Adastra's kindergarten to join the first grade, would be brought back screaming: "They have books in kindergarten but just with pictures. They don't do numbers. I want to be in first grade." After a two-week trial, the McCormicks let her have her way. As for the parents, they are equally enthusiastic...